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0.5 kg - Shuangliu County Oil Stamp Chengdu, Sichuan
| Issuer | Shuangliu County Government, Sichuan |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress printing on cream paper with a geometric guilloche underprint in pale ochre. The main coupon bears a central oval vignette with the denomination '0.5公斤' in bold characters, surmounted by the issuer's title in Chinese across the top. A detachable secondary coupon at right is separated by a dashed perforation line and carries the denomination and void notice '自撕作废'. A red circular control stamp is applied to the centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 双流县农村周转油票 0.5公斤 （壹市斤） 一九九一年六月一日至一九九二年五月底有效 副券 0.5公斤 自撕作废 (Translation: Shuangliu County Rural Turnover Oil Ticket 0.5 kg (1 Shi Jin) Valid from June 1, 1991 to the end of May, 1992 Secondary coupon 0.5 kg void after tearing off) |
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Chinese county-level ration stamps for cooking oil persisted well into the early 1990s in rural Sichuan, even as urban markets were being liberalized. Shuangliu County, immediately southwest of Chengdu and today absorbed into the city's administrative grid, was still running a parallel rationing infrastructure in 1991 — this stamp is a direct artifact of that lag between policy and practice.
Half-kilogram denominations were the working unit of everyday household allocation. These were not collected; they were used, surrendered at the point of sale, and discarded.